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1 posted on 08/17/2007 8:18:39 PM PDT by FightThePower!
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The Great Depression was perhaps the most overrated financial disaster in history. Sure, unemployment was higher than average and people lost money in the stock market. Still, the vast majority of people were unaffected by the Great Depression.

So, this guy should take some Prozac and go to bed.


2 posted on 08/17/2007 8:22:22 PM PDT by whitedog57
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What a load of codswallop. No depression will be forthcoming.

Nor will we have any economic setbacks unless major nations elect numbskull socialists who destroy our respective economies. And even then, someone like Hillary can do great damage but America’s supertanker economy will keep rolling along.


3 posted on 08/17/2007 8:25:02 PM PDT by WOSG ( Don't tell me what you are against, tell me what you are FOR.)
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I think I would go to Singapore or Hong Kong and maybe Switzerland.

They are expensive.

But in a depression, law and order breaks down and Singapore and Hong Kong and Switzerland take law and order very seriously.

They also have state of the art infrastructure and technology and have some level of English proficiency.


5 posted on 08/17/2007 8:26:54 PM PDT by staytrue
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I think a life on the Pampas is overrated.


7 posted on 08/17/2007 8:30:36 PM PDT by Rudder
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great place to hang out

...chugging lagers with Marty Bormann and the Berlin crew.
8 posted on 08/17/2007 8:32:27 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....when the sidewalks are safe for the little guy.)
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Yeah, I saw this. I guess I ought to hold my breath awaiting this guy's policy recommendations. Everyone wants to complain, but no one wants to do anything about it.

This stock market hiccup has revealed a huge amount of raw selfishness and greed. This guy is quite selfish, too. I don't see him noting the conditions of places where it'll cost him 10 cents on the dollar to pay people for their goods and services. Or why it costs 10-1 here.

Why does there need to be all this intervention to bail the greedy few? Let the market correction do just that.

I keep asking my baby boomer friends: who's going to buy their over-priced stocks when they ask their mutual fund managers for a distribution? Not me, thank you. They have no clue.

9 posted on 08/17/2007 8:33:21 PM PDT by elk
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So what should you be doing about all this? I suggest you really internationalize yourself. I think what you ought to have is your citizenship in one country, your bank account in another country, your investments in a third, and live in a fourth. You’ve got to internationalize yourself.


Yeah—no doubt about that. This guy is a jetsetter and thinks everyone else is too. Sorry, Doug, most of us “serfs” are too busy earning a living & raising our families to internationalize ourselves per your instructions. Geeze.

Rignt now there is a world-wide production glut of epic proportions. If the bottom falls out, most things will get a lot cheaper (TVs, cameras, etc). Cash will be king. If you’ve got $$ in the bank, you’ll be fine. If you’re living on credit, you’re probably in trouble.

Actually, thinking about it, a Depression might wring a lot of crap out of society that has been building up since 1960.


10 posted on 08/17/2007 8:34:00 PM PDT by rbg81 (DRAIN THE SWAMP!!)
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"I went there a few years ago for the polo, actually, and the reason was that playing polo there was about 10% what it cost me in Palm Beach...

The sky is falling because he can't get polo ponies cheap any more? Sounds like he's trying to convince us to move to Argentina so he can clean up on real estate down there.

11 posted on 08/17/2007 8:36:08 PM PDT by LibFreeOrDie (L'Chaim!)
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Wasn’t I just reading Argentina horror stories on FR a few short years ago.

Criminals in the streets. Everyone losing everything. It was as though the world had come to an end.

Was the trouble exaggerated or was there an incredible turn around?

12 posted on 08/17/2007 8:39:20 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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On the other hand, the sun has been coming up in full glory for years now. It is time for it to stop.

Children & minorities hardest hit.


13 posted on 08/17/2007 8:46:02 PM PDT by dbacks (I forgot to pay the rent on my tagline.)
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Aside from an unstable economy, I read recently that Hezzbola operates fairly openly in Argentina and other parts of South America. So much for insulation from WWIII. Think I’ll just take my chances here. :)
19 posted on 08/17/2007 9:17:35 PM PDT by berdie
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this guy sounds like my tv-moron neighbors.

after 12 hours of tube they are depressed and angry and fearful.

they all say the world is coming to an end.

burp.


20 posted on 08/17/2007 9:19:24 PM PDT by ken21 (28 yrs +2 families = banana republic junta. si.)
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This guy makes some interesting statements, although he doesn’t seem to do a very good job explaining himself. My standard of living is about to drop dramatically and I should divest my belongings and money into several different countries? What’s this about WWIII? If there’s a business cycle lasting about 25 years, why should this correction be worse than the corrections in the late 1970s and the 1930s? All he says about Argentina is that it’s cheap to live there and the land is relatively underpopulated. So?

This kind of writer reminds of the guys who used to populate Art Bell’s program - interesting to listen to, sometimes coherent, sometimes loony, almost always spouting dogmatic promises about one thing or another with little actual proof.


22 posted on 08/17/2007 9:26:06 PM PDT by redpoll (redpoll)
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The Great Depression was not an accident and neither will the next one be..
Interesting times are coming..
29 posted on 08/17/2007 10:25:06 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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“So you’re getting a massive immigration from rich Europeans that can see the handwriting on the wall and like it down there (Argentina).”

Wasn't there a certain, select group of Europeans who migrated there around 1944-1946?

38 posted on 08/18/2007 12:00:51 AM PDT by JSteff (Reality= understanding you are not nearly important enough for the government to tap your phone.)
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Lower interest rates, reduce the size of government by 85 percent, secure the borders, deport 30 million illegal aliens, and end all government wasteful spending.

The solutions are so easy.

39 posted on 08/18/2007 12:04:49 AM PDT by dragnet2
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All currencies are in a race to the bottom due to global trade pressures.

Keep your wealth in anything but fiat and you will be OK.


BUMP

50 posted on 08/18/2007 4:31:19 AM PDT by capitalist229 (ANDS)
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We're all gonna die!!!!

51 posted on 08/18/2007 4:50:15 AM PDT by Lazamataz (JOIN THE NRA: https://membership.nrahq.org/forms/signup.asp)
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This writer should be in a padded cell somewhere flailing about for flies and then eating them.

Leni

62 posted on 08/18/2007 6:34:27 AM PDT by MinuteGal (Three Cheers for the FRed, White and Blue !)
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bttt


63 posted on 08/18/2007 7:05:40 AM PDT by dennisw
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